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I can deal with light noise in the beginning of some songs which disappears one the music starts. What about those annoying pops or tick sounds, or whatever they're called, that show up in the middle of a song? I have a few lp's where the whole thing is nearly flawless 'cept for those few noises in one or two songs. And if you hear that same song again from a different source, your brain just waits for that pop to arrive whether it's there or not. What is an actual 'pop' and can it somehow be removed?I used to think as a kid I could just put a large weight on the headshell or hold the thing down tight and 'drag' the needle through the groove to rip out whatever was in there, but what did I know, I was just a dumb kid damaging his favorite Aerosmith record.
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Not 100% perfect but work wonder on smaller/medium scratch.I do it till I cannot feel the scratch with my finger skin.
If you don't feel the scratch there is good chance the pop/tick level will be quite low.
Yes, the vintage SAE-5000 works quite well and is usually available on eBay for $75-100.
it don't do no damage. just hold it at a 45 degree angle to the oncoming pop and most times it is dislodged.
~Slainte, Pardner
The OMalley
NT
pull it out of your kid's mouth. A tick can be removed with tweezers.
I'm sorry, the devil made me do it.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Ticks have a rather nasty habit of making for and 'installing' themselves in a particular part of the male anatomy .. which I could not possibly mention here .. ouch! A rather uncomfortable memory from childhood.
i never heard that before. I gotta stop thinking about it.not up the urethra? no fcking way.
~Slainte, Pardner
The OMalley
About 27 years ago (before digital tools, of course!), I worked for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in film sound. One afternoon, a producer came in with an old 78 he needed to play on air. It was full of clicks and pops, so, it being a quiet afternoon, I took on the job of cutting them out. I recorded it onto 1/4" tape on our old Ampex recorder, then spent several happy hours rocking the tape across the heads to find and mark the clicks and then splice them out. The result was a relatively click-free recording. As the splices were very small, the timing differences resulting from very short lost pieces of tape were not noticeable.I wouldn't do it again (or need to), but it filled in a couple of empty hours. Now of course you can do the same with digital tools, but you loose the analog-ness of the recording.
Luckily, the digital tools available now are not only quite good at cleaning up the ticks & pops, (if you know how to use them) they make quick work of it too.When I've recorded LP to digital I haven't been able to hear a difference between the LP and the copy. In my experience, the "analog-ness" remains intact, since it was on the LP to begin with. But YMMV.
Is it just me or does it seem odd to anyone else that in the long history of vinyl reporduction there have virtually no vinyl repair products (things other than cleaning fluids and electronic de-clickers).
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
Using glue to extract debris in the grooves.It worked for me using standard school type white glue. This is water soluble and you need not fear the stuff.
Not totally silent, but the LP's I have cleaned this way are worlds quieter than when I started, even after Bugtussell.
If the record looks good, there's a good chance deep wet-cleaning will take care of a lot of the ticks and pops. Many of the ticks are caused by debris in the groove rather than an actual scratch, so if you get rid of the debris, that could take care of many of the ticks.Ticks & pops bug me too. :-)
cleaner such as AIE or Bugtussel Vinyl-Zyme.
Henry
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